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GLI ASPETTI DELLA COSMOLOGIA PARMENIDEA IN 28 B10 DK
Full text linkIn this paper I argue for interpretation of Parmenidean Being as coinciding with what is visible by night in the sky with the naked eye, and I interpret the well-known identity of Being and Thinking as the notice of unchanging caracteristics (the σήματα τοῦ ἐόντος) dealing with the totality of phenomena. Such notice aims at what I call aspects of knowledge related to heavenly bodie
LA MONADE COSTITUENTE SÉ E IL PROPRIO MONDO
Full text linkThis contribution was presented for the first time at the II Congreso Iberoamericano Leibniz that took place in Granada on April 6th, 2014. It was thus presented at the Conference Leibniz: Ein reiches Erbe, hosted in Hannover on July 1st, 2014 – for the anniversary of Leibniz’s birth–, and at the International Conference Based on Reason. Leibniz’s Principles of Nature and Grace, hosted in Mailand on September 15th-16th, 2014. In 2016, it is published in the Series “Hefte der Leibniz-Stiftungsprofessur” (Hannover, Wehrhan Verlag), edited by Wenchao Li, to celebrate the 90th birthday of its author. What follows is the Italian translation of the essa
A PROPOSITO DI MARIO DAL PRA E IL CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Full text linkThe paper informs about Mario Dal Pra’s contribution for the Italian National Research Council, especially from the sixties to the eighties of the twentieth century, when he founded and directed the Centro di Studi del Pensiero Filosofico del Cinquecento e del Seicento in Relazione ai Problemi della Scienza stimulating the activities of a number of scholars united by the common effort of establishing an Italian model for the history of philosophy. Finally, the paper looks into the future on the basis of research and technology developed at CN
SCETTICISMO E RICERCA DELLA VERITÀ NOTA SUL TERMINE ΖΗΤΗΣΙΣ IN SESTO EMPIRICO
Full text linkThis paper argues that Sceptic philosophers’ search for the truth is different from the Dogmatic one: the Sceptics indeed investigate the truth of Dogmatic philosophers’ theories. That is not inconsistent with a genuine search for truth, since the Sceptics do not maintain that the Dogmatic philosophical theories are necessarily fals
SOME NOTES ON LAW, REASON AND MORAL SENTIMENT IN THE KANTIAN LECTURES ON NATURAL LAW
Full text linkKant’s juridical thought enjoys renewed attention and his reading on Natural Law provides for a better possible understanding of it, with the emergence of the crucial distinction between laws of nature and laws of freedom, and the difference of freedom and morality from simple rationality and moral sentimen
“PRIMA FURON LE COSE E POI I NOMI”. RIFLESSIONI INTORNO ALLA FILOSOFIA DEL LINGUAGGIO DI GALILEO
Full text linkThis article addresses an aspect of Galileo’s thought that has hitherto attracted little attention, that is to say, his philosophy of language. First of all, we try to show that Galileo’s reflections on the ambiguous and conventional nature of verbal language, though not expounded systematically, present interesting analogies with John Locke’s. In addition, we analyse the ontological and epistemological implications of Galileo’s mathematical realis
DIOGENE DI BABILONIA E ARISTONE NEL PHERC. 1004 ([FILODEMO], [SULLA RETORICA], LIBRO INCERTO) PARTE PRIMA
Full text linkThe main evidence about the lost treatise On Rhetoric by the Stoic philosopher Diogenes of Babylon (c. 230-150/140 B.C.) is represented by large passages coming from Philodemus’ On Rhetoric Book 3 and Unknown Book (PHerc. 1004). Here Diogenes condemns professional rhetoric and rhetors with arguments which are either coincident or very similar to those used by an unknown Aristo in the final section of the same book. In particular, according to Philodemus, Diogenes drew from some enigmatic hypomnēmata by this philosopher for his own treatise On Rhetoric. Now, attacks against traditional rhetors, though different in kind and intensity, are attested in antiquity for only two philosophers by this name: the Peripatetic Aristo the Younger, pupil of Critolaus, and the Stoic Aristo of Chius, disciple of Zeno and the author of a polemical pamphlet Against the Rhetors. Both chronological and philosophical arguments compel us to exclude the former and strongly point to the latte
LEIBNIZ, WEIGEL AND THE BIRTH OF BINARY ARITHMETIC
Full text linkIn recent years, Leibniz’s previously unpublished writings have cast a new light on his relationship with Erhard Weigel, from a mere influence during the early years to an exchange of ideas that lasted at least until Weigel’s death in 1699. In this paper I argue that Weigel’s De supputatione multitudinis a nullitate per unitates finitas in infinitum collineantis ad deum is one of the most important influences on Leibniz’s development of binary arithmetic. This work published in 1679, the same year of Leibniz’s De progressione dyadica, contains some fundamental ideas adopted by Leibniz both in mathematics and metaphysics. The controversial theories expressed in these writings will also help in understanding why Leibniz tried to hide Weigel’s influence during his lif
